Benjamin Panciera has been the director of the Linda Lear Center for Special Collections and Archives at Connecticut College since 2009. Prior to that, he was rare book librarian and assistant rare book cataloger at the University of Notre Dame. Benjamin has been an active participant and advocate for Project Stand, serving on a Project Stand panel at the New England Archivists meeting in Burlington, Vermont, and chairing a session at the Project Stand Symposium at the University of Rhode Island, both in 2019.